WIP Work/possum

[ghost]

Opening PR for @dividedmind

[dividedmind]

Python is a harsh mistress ;)

[kgilpin]

@dividedmind @dustinmm80 This is pretty interesting actually. This is a working API + CLI for Possum afaik.

[ghost]

I think we can use some of this to get a working Conjur v5 Python client. But we can probably remove all the CLI stuff right? We already have a Ruby CLI, a Python CLI doesn't add much to the mix. Less code the better :)

[ryanprior]

I actually thinking having multiple Conjur CLIs owns, as long as they all have tests.

I'd propose splitting out the CLI stuff into a separate PR, merging this, and merging the Python CLI once it has tests.

[ghost]

I disagree. Why would having more than one CLI be a good thing? It increases the work we have to do (maintaining multiple CLIs) without providing any more functionality to our end users.

I think we would be better served using this PR as a foundation for a Python API client that works with Conjur 4 and 5.

[kgilpin]

For what it's worth, I don't want to have two CLIs either. This was a fun experiment but I think it should be retired now.

I also agree that our API libraries should work with both v4 and v5 with a setting/env var switch.

We should consider bringing that approach to the Ruby API as well. If I call a command on the Ruby (5.x) library, I would like that command to try and work against whatever backend I have (understanding that's impossible in some cases).